The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-03
SCHNAE1ELS'S GOOD LUCK.
HE CONES OUT OF THE DIPLO-
MATIC MILL
A Much Greater Man Than When He
Went In-He Refuses to Accept
the Diamond Cross,
BUT WILL BE RETIRED ON A
COMFORTABLE PENSION.
The London "Times" Still Insists
That the Sensational Letters
Published Were ParnelPs.

LONDON, May 2.-Mr. Goschen's
budget proposes that the import duty
on cigars sbal. be shillings per pound
(tobacco) On Cayendsh tobacco in
the leaf As Cd per pound; on Caven-
dish manufactured, in bond, ehilliDgs
Der pound; on other msnufac .ured
tobacco shillings per pound; on to-
bacco containing 10 per cent. moisture
3s I'd per pound, and on tobacco coo
tanning less than 10 per cent moisture
3s Cd per pound.
THE LIBEL SUIT OF sIR JOHN BRKNoN
Against THE "PICADnLY."
LONDON, May 2.-The libel suit
brought against William Ridgeway,
publisher of Picadilly for S25, 900, for
asserting in the black pamphlet on the
Irish question, recently issued by himf
that Sir John BrenoD, the plaintiff, =
former Home RUE m. mber of Parlia-
ment, was FeRian and an ally of the
Invincibles, came up for trial today.
The courtroom was crowded in an
ticipation of Developments. Mr..
Ridgsway, the defendant being called,
pleaded tina. The alleged libel was true.
Sir John Brenon, the plaintiff, be.
ing sworn, made an emphatic denial
of the defendants statement. Sir
John said he never was a Fenian.
He left the Land League, he eaid, in
June 1880, after quarrel with its
managers for opening bis kilograms.
He has not since that time joined any
Irish league or association, or any
Fenian league or association. He has
never travelled between Paris and
London on IIish Republican business,
He had never inteffered with the
work Of tracing dyI amiters.
Continuing, Sir John declared that
Sir Lion Playfsir told him that Mr..
Gladstone had become converted to
the home rule thsorv in 1879, and
tina. he desired Mr. Psrnell to accept
the Office of Chief Secretary for Ire
land. Witness spoke to Mr.. Psrnell
about taking the Office, but be de-
clined even to entertain the idea.
THE SHINES" PERSISTS THAT THE LET
TIERS WERE PARNELL's.
LoND IN, May 2.-The Times, return.
ing to the charges against Mr.. Parnell
aud his party, says sour artic' es
on Parnellism and crimes and the Par
nell letter have sunk deep into the
public mind and have produced con-
viction that nothing will shake save
evidence of a kind that Mr.. Parnell
can not produce"
The Times ,sa|so publishes a long
article on the style OF the articles on
Parnellism and crime, purporting to
show that Mr.. John Dillon, in his de-
tense in the House OF Commons OF
the Parnellite party against the charges
that they had had relations with the
dynamiter Sheridan, either offe ED to
Parliament tissue of fictions which
he had never taken the trouble
to examine or reached a still lower
depth of dishonesty.
MARQUIS OF HARTINGToN's LETTER TO
THE LIBERAL UNIoNIsTs.
LONDON, May 2.--The Marquis OF
Hartip eton writes letter to the Lib
eral Unionists, advising them 10 or.
ganize as party for the purpose of
maintaining their position. In his
letter the Marquis saws: "The Lib
erals abstail ed, perhaps, too long
from acts which seemed likely to in
tensify and perpetuate the Liberal d.
visions, while prospect of reunion
of the party, or of reasonable toiera-
ton on the part of the Liberal major
ity towards the Liberal Unionists, ex.
listed. The establishment Of vigor-
GUS Liberal Unionist association will
best preserve the integrity Of the Lib
ersl party, Otherwise, sound Liber-
ais who cannot approve of Mr.. Glad
stones policy, may be driven to join
the Conservative party"